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Summary Militants assaulted a prison in the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Thursday night, battling guards inside.
A suicide bomber targeted the gate of the prison with a car bomb and gunmen then assaulted the prison, after which they killed the guards, a police lieutenant colonel said of the incident, north of Baghdad.A police colonel said there were clashes between police and gunmen inside the prison, and a curfew has been announced in Tikrit.
